Can I upgrade my video card?

[tential]

I'm not sure what you mean by "before the adapter".
When I told the technician that I wanted the model that doesn't require a 6 pin he glanced at me and said there's no such thing, and that every graphic card needs a connector.
And I remember him mentioning something about my PCI being too old.

In general, never take your PC to a "technician". There isn't anything on a PC that is so hard that someone here couldn't explain to you what to do.

The 750 is an easy card to install. It's similar to a ram upgrade.

oddly enough, I've never met a person that worked at/ran a PC place that was competent in PC knowledge about parts. Well, competent I guess compared to the average member on a PC tech forum.

 

[Deders]

I mean the wire before it gets to the adapter that the guy put in to power the card. The one with the 4 pin molex and the sata power plugs on them that is also plugged into your disk drive.

There are plenty of graphics cards that don't need a power adapter, it's just that up until now they haven't been very good for gaming.

The 750 and 750TI changed all that giving decent mid range performance under 75W.

Don't worry too much about your PCI Express version. I run a much more powerful card on PCIe 2.0 and I never see it saturate more than 50% of the bandwidth (I monitor it in game) Having the latest version of PCIe won't make any difference for you, although the CPU and motherboard that it was attached to would.

 

[bononos]

I see, what would happen if the wires did overheat?
I know it's a shame, I really wanted it, it was just too expensive (too expensive than it should be).

If you aren't gaming, graphics cards from the past decade will lower their clocks and consume less power. And the 650 should only sip power watching movies.

 

[Fares Naser]

In general, never take your PC to a "technician". There isn't anything on a PC that is so hard that someone here couldn't explain to you what to do.

The 750 is an easy card to install. It's similar to a ram upgrade.

oddly enough, I've never met a person that worked at/ran a PC place that was competent in PC knowledge about parts. Well, competent I guess compared to the average member on a PC tech forum.

Yes, I've seen videos of installing it, it was easier than I thought.

 

[Fares Naser]

If you aren't gaming, graphics cards from the past decade will lower their clocks and consume less power. And the 650 should only sip power watching movies.

I see, so it will probably be okay.
Thanks.

 

[Fares Naser]

I mean the wire before it gets to the adapter that the guy put in to power the card. The one with the 4 pin molex and the sata power plugs on them that is also plugged into your disk drive.

There are plenty of graphics cards that don't need a power adapter, it's just that up until now they haven't been very good for gaming.

The 750 and 750TI changed all that giving decent mid range performance under 75W.

Don't worry too much about your PCI Express version. I run a much more powerful card on PCIe 2.0 and I never see it saturate more than 50% of the bandwidth (I monitor it in game) Having the latest version of PCIe won't make any difference for you, although the CPU and motherboard that it was attached to would.

Yeah got it, I will try running Frumark as you said.
Thanks Deders!